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Interview with Adam Di Carlo (Debian Boot)

Posted by michael on from the soon-to-be-accomplishable-by-normal-humans dept.

robstah writes: "The installer is the heart of any Operating System, Debian is no different. The mature but ageing boot-floppies installer will rear its head for the last time in woody. In this interview with Adam Di Carlo, one of the lead developers of this system we investigate the past, present and future of the Debian installation system ready for the upcoming release of woody: The next generation of Debian."

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  1. Re:I think it would be better to call the installe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Personally, I'd call it the vagina of the distro, because that's where everything else originally came out of.

  2. Re:I think it would be better to call the installe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Er, no. Thats where things go in, son. Definitely the belly button. Thats where stuff gets built. Perhaps the umbillical cord. Maybe even the placenta... yes, of course.

  3. Re:seventh post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wh00t! no you should, drinking is good! i will now go drink to celebrate my victorious 7th post

  4. Re:The Installer is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hey! i already went there, 4 posts ago!

  5. Re:really... by Cheese+Metal+Rulez!! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey! Less of the salt shaker shenanigans!

    I just had the old guy restuffed.

    *remounts Jesus on wall next to stereo Santas.

  6. Re:I think it would be better to call the installe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eh? I suppose you could argue that it includes both the vagina and uterus...but how were you born? cesarean section? stuff comes out too, ya know, stop using birth control if you dont believe me.

  7. Re:The Installer is... by SpringRevolt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ah yes, so you did.

    Such is the price we pay for anonymous cowardice.

  8. Re:I think it would be better to call the installe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    his mom shit him out her asshole.

    PS - that's funny, implying a slashdot poster might have use for birth control.

  9. OT: Debian mozilla 0.9.6 anti-aliases!! by Adnans · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yes, go to the Gdkxft site and download/install the 1.4 tarball. Then:

    $ LD_PRELOAD=libgdkxft.so mozilla

    Enjoy a jaggy-less web experience!

    -adnans

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    "In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people." --Linus Torvalds
  10. Commodore 64 by Kev+Vance · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Media formats (from hard disk): *.vob, *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.mp3, *.sid

    *.sid? As in the format for ripped C-64 music? Rock on! With 20GB, you could fit every commodore 64 song ever written on the thing.

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    F0 07 C7 C8
  11. XFree86 4.x by w1kL3f · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just got the Debian woody (2.2r4) i386 set of binaries from CheapBytes. Maybe someday when xDSL becomes less of a pain in the ass, I can have all the current packages.

    I was disappointed that the binaries came with XFree86 3.x Why? Can somebody point me to a CD vendor with the latest (latest as in today) images?

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